Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Our Internal Light

Every
time one forms a memory some changes occur in the brain, what
changes exactly? The brain's wiring. What does that mean? it's simple,
it's how the brain is connected to its internal parts.

To
be more clear follow this sequence:

Event
X happens in one's life

||

Formation
of memory

||

Brain
forms a new Link somewhere

||

Formation
of new feeling, behaviour, or thought

Wiring
in our brains might hinder us from feeling or being the best we can
be, and in my opinion being the best we can be is being perfect human
beings; fully spiritual, fully compassionate, internally powerful,
influential over ourselves, loving ourselves, everyone and
everything around us. Basically having a heavenly feeling on earth no
matter what the outside circumstances were.

To
understand what is happening more clearly here is a simple technical analogy:

In
Electrical Engineering there's a very simple rule which says: If you
connect 2 light bulbs in 2 different ways, the operation and the
light intensity shown will be different.

Parallel
circuit (Left): if one bulb turns off, the others will stay on and
wont be affected.

Series
circuit (Right): if one bulb turns off, all the bulbs will turn off.

Why
does this matter? The above 3 bulbs can be anything externally that
is linked to the internal well being, lets have a simple yet common
example and represent the above 3 bulbs to be:

1-
Money

2-
Self-Motivation

3-
Confidence

Just
as how these circuits might work, we are confronted in our lives to
many situations that make us connect these 3 things in different ways
(from the way we were brought up to the culture we end up living in),
2 of these ways are shown above.

Let's
take one example:

Person
A has these 3 factors connected in parallel, when the amount of money
they get decreases (bulb goes off), the other bulbs wont be affected
and that person's level of self motivation remains somehow constant
because it is not directly dependent on monetary gain. That person
will also remain high in confidence and will possibly be able to fix the
situation that is causing this decrease in income as fast as they
can.

Person
B thinks about these factors in a series way, that person has the
perception that the external factor (money) is directly linked to
that person's level of self confidence and what they may not know is
that increasing these two factors will increase their
self-motivation. However, what happens if the bulb of money turns off
someday? The other bulbs will turn off and their life will probably
end up not as expected leading to more bad things.

The
above is just a simple example out of many and does not satisfy
extreme cases. However, there exists many other examples, the number
of things we make ourselves dependent on and our self well-being and
sense of satisfaction is just as much as there are wirings in the
brain.

We
are programmed from our childhood to think in one common way, all
these memories and circuits of bulbs are created due to what we
observe and learn from the outside world. From the moment we are born
to the moment we die; Since we are in a system that is growing in
restricting individuals to be what they really want to be everyone is mainly following the same cycle, naturally our brains acquires similar connections and behaviours as the brain connections in everyone around us.

Striving
to possess money has been a constant struggle and most of the people
are not sure whether they will be satisfied with it or not. A couple
of months ago, a Russian millionaire opened his window and threw
thousands of dollars to the people on the street, and he was laughing while saying to the press “I have been fooled all that time by this
illusion of happiness”, on the other end, people down the street
were fighting like animals in order to capture all that money. Money
is just one example.

Where
is the problem?

The problem comes when we miss to find out
that being our best emotionally, mentally, spiritually, socially,
physically, etc.. may be possibly hindered by few connections that
depend on certain unimportant external factors.

So
how does one change these wires and connections in their brain and
make their true human nature (the nature of true intelligence, of
true wisdom, of true loving, of true happiness of true satisfaction)
be lighted in them?

By
detaching oneself from the influence of the outside world. Buddhists
believe that this life is temporary and that humans should not base
the comfort of their inner selves on it.

Everyone
is perfect in their own way, intelligent in their own way, creative
in their own way, happy in their own way, and loving in their own
way. All what one has to do is find that way and stick to it.

In
order to allow yourself to control your life, your destiny and your
happiness you must not let your external life have any negative
influence on you, and only have two circuits working in parallel: